Matt Jordan

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Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy
Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5
Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu
Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu

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the GOP works in absolute synchronicity with telecom monopolies to ensure that U.S. broadband and wireless consumer protection is as feckless and broken as possible, though oddly that's context news organizations don't think is important for readers to understand

Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections Are Deadwww.techdirt.com Last week, the Senate voted 50-48 along party lines to kill consumer broadband privacy protections. That vote then continued today in the House, where GOP lawmakers finished the job, apparently hap…

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A longtime post-conviction attorney told me recently that what worried him most about MAGA judges is that federal judges previously saw a reversal as a rebuke. MAGA judges see it as a badge of honor -- and their ticket to a higher court. He said this is wreaking havoc on the rule of law.

Live Updates: Judge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Trumpwww.nytimes.com Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the entire case should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the case, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution. Her decision is sure...

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Knowledge is power, which is why Donald Trump’s Project 2025 would decimate public education. 🔴 Abolishing the Department of Education 🔴 Public tax money for private and religious schools 🔴 Curriculums based on ideology 🔴 No cancellation of student loans This harms everyone

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Do not obey in advance.

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This is what AOC and Bernie get for sticking by Biden, and we can debate the policy, but this is a super-tangible win for the left side of the Democratic Party

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Dannagal G. Young

In one of his since-deleted tweets from a month before Trump’s presidential victory, Vance wrote, “Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.”

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Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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Here’s the letter to which Radley alludes demanding investigation of a journalist for an op-ed. Trump never had much of a mask, if any, but a Vance pick is a mask-off moment, in the sense that it’s saying “you’re goddamned right we want fascism.” www.vance.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

www.vance.senate.gov

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“We find that Trump’s use of violent vocabulary has increased over time…He increasingly exemplifies a negative populism, concentrated on denigrating out-groups.” Cc: all the journalists credulously agreeing with Rs that the “temperature” is too hot. Call is coming from inside the house, ya rubes!

Donald Trump's words www.nber.org/papers/w3266... "Trump’s use of violent vocabulary has increased over time and now surpasses that of all other democratic politicians we studied....He increasingly exemplifies a negative populism, concentrated on denigrating out-groups."

Donald Trump's wordswww.nber.org Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Today's newsletter: Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: GOP's Attempt to Silence Legitimate Criticism www.readtpa.com/p/rewriting-...

Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: GOP's Attempt to Silence Legitimate Criticismwww.readtpa.com Republicans revive the familiar tactic of misconstruing Democratic rhetoric as an incitement to violence.

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The rapid response cartoon that ate my Sunday. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

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To wit: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

If you’re gonna go out there, as a Democrat, saying that Dems should stop today saying this election is a battle between democracy and authoritarianism, you’re doing that while a) the motive of the registered-Republican isn’t even known and b) *Trump* is saying the election is a choice between…

Trump Allies Try to Bully Dems, Media to Shut Up About His Fascist Planswww.rollingstone.com Republicans are seeking to capitalize on Trump’s assassination attempt — using it to demand everyone stop talking about his threats to democracy.

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It doesn’t take a lot of digging to see how badly mainstream media has misled the public about DEI in university hiring. Closely reading just a couple of paragraphs will do. shorturl.at/i8F2x

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If Republicans want to blame someone besides Thomas Matthew Crooks for shooting Donald Trump, start with the gun lobby's top recipients this year: Donald Trump: $500,564 Ted Cruz: $107,077 Elise Stefanik: $49,449 Mike Johnson: $45242 Marsha Blackburn: $38,474

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

And what decree will come next as it happens here?

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Disinformation networks ‘flooded’ X before EU elections, report says Analysis by Dutch researchers shows coordinated activity in France, Germany and Italy in run-up to ballot www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Disinformation networks ‘flooded’ X before EU elections, report sayswww.theguardian.com Analysis by Dutch researchers shows coordinated activity in France, Germany and Italy in run-up to ballot

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Bob Novak had just attended an RNC meeting in the summer of 1963 and was stunned at how openly racist some of the new southern officials were. The next year, the man who had shocked him the most — Wirt Yerger, head of the Mississippi GOP — added a defense of segregation to his state party platform.

Evans and Novak picked up on this too:

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Two out of three of the leading candidates for President of the United States in 2024 are rapists. But the third makes "gaffes," so what are voters supposed to do?

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Why Project 2025 is a hateful plan all Americans should fear (Columbus Dispatch columnist) www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Why Project 2025 is a hateful plan all Americans should fearwww.dispatch.com Columnist: Project 2025 fosters hatred of those who don’t agree with its views and seeks to ostracize its philosophical enemies.

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It’s the fascist international 2.0 and it’s public and coming to try to end American democracy. Trump is signaling the axis of transnational fascism is awaiting him and the republicans with open arms. This is such a massive threat it’s really hard to describe.

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“The EU Commission charged X for failing to respect EU social media law. The platform could face a multi-million euro fine in a pioneering case under the bloc’s new Digital Services Act, a law to clamp down on toxic and illegal online content & algorithms.” www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

EU charges Elon Musk’s X for letting disinfo run wildwww.politico.eu The tech mogul’s platform is the first to get hit with charges under new EU social media law.

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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

Some thoughts on the impact of oligarch oligopoly on local TV news using the case of Sinclair Broadcasting. 📰 🗃️ newsliteracy.psu.edu/news/the-new...

The news behind your local TV news - News Literacy Initiativenewsliteracy.psu.edu Here at the News Literacy Initiative, we’ve been trying to stress the importance of good local news for democracy. Over the last decade, the number of local n

And over on the pro-oligarch Muskovite site, the best democracy sabotage that very little money can buy. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Justice Department Leads Efforts Among Federal, International, and Private Sector Partners to Disrupt Covert Russian Government-Operated Social Media Bot Farmwww.justice.gov The Justice Department today announced the seizure of two domain names and the search of 968 social media accounts used by Russian actors to create an AI-enhanced social media bot farm that spread dis...

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“AND HIS BENEFACTORS”

Hey now

Whitehouse and Wyden Ask Attorney General to Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate Potential Ethics and Tax Law Violations by Justice Clarence Thomas and His Benefactors - Senator Sheldon Whitehousewww.whitehouse.senate.gov Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Att...

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France just proved that the way you fight against fascism is by fighting for the working class — not by appeasing the billionaires and corporations propping up fascists. Pay attention.

What to know about France’s leftist alliance after shock election winwww.washingtonpost.com The New Popular Front wants to lower France’s retirement age and vastly expand government spending on social welfare, environmental protection and health care.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless